How to Install Piler on POP! OS Latest

Piler is an open-source email and message archiving tool that offers businesses a platform to store, index, and search for their communication content. This tutorial will take you through the steps required to install Piler on POP! OS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before installing Piler, ensure you have the following prerequisites:

• POP! OS Latest installed and up to date.
• An active internet connection.

Installation Steps

1. Open the terminal on your POP! OS.

2. Install the necessary packages by running the following command:

   sudo apt-get install -y apache2 mysql-server build-essential openssl libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libdbi-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libterm-readkey-perl libunix-syslog-perl libsys-hostname-long-perl libnet-ip-perl libmime-lite-perl libencode-imaputf7-perl libmime-types-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tree-perl libdigest-sha-perl libencode-locale-perl libemail-date-format-perl libdatetime-perl libtimedate-perl libxml-feed-perl libgd-graph-perl libchart-perl libtext-csv-perl
   

   This command will install all the necessary packages required to install Piler on POP! OS.

3. Start and enable the required system services using the following commands:

   sudo systemctl start apache2.service
   sudo systemctl enable apache2.service
   sudo systemctl start mysql.service
   sudo systemctl enable mysql.service
   

4. Download Piler by running the following command:

   wget https://bitbucket.org/jsuto/piler/downloads/piler-1.3.9.tar.gz
   

5. Extract the downloaded files by running the following command:

   tar -zxvf piler-1.3.9.tar.gz
   

6. Rename the extracted folder by running the following command:

   mv piler-1.3.9 piler
   

7. Move the piler folder to the Apache webserver directory by running the following command:

   sudo mv piler /var/www/html/
   

8. Change the ownership of the piler directory by running the following command:

   sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/piler
   

9. Change the directory permissions by running the following command:

   sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/piler
   

10. Navigate to the Piler installation directory by running the following command:

    cd /var/www/html/piler
    

11. Open the Piler configuration file by running the following command:

    sudo nano piler.conf
    

12. Edit the configuration file to match your server settings. Change the following lines to reflect your specific settings:

    \$MYSQLDB=DBD::mysql:host=localhost\\;database=piler;mysql_read_default_file=\/etc\/mysql\/debian.cnf
    \$DBUSER=debian-sys-maint
    \$DBPASSWD=mypassword
    

    Save the file and exit.

13. Initialize the Piler database by running the following commands:

    mysqladmin -u root -p create pilerdb
    mysql -u root -p pilerdb < sql/pilerdb-schema-mysql.sql
    mysql -u root -p -e "GRANT ALL ON pilerdb.* TO 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypassword';"
    

14. Create a new user to access Piler by running the following command:

    sudo htpasswd -c /etc/piler/piler.ht --dbm-type=Bcrypt pileruser
    

15. Start the Piler service by running the following command:

    sudo systemctl start piler
    

    You can access Piler at http://localhost/piler using the username and password specified in step 14.

Congratulations, you have successfully installed Piler on POP! OS Latest.

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